Title: THE AGRICULTURAL CONNECTION
Author: New York Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle
Description: Poster provides a kaleidoscope of the rural/urban connection featuring a border of ag commodities.

Title: ANIMALS AND THEIR BABIES PUZZLE
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This 2'x3' (24 pieces) puzzle pairs the following animals and their young in their natural setting: sheep - lamb, horse - foal, pig - piglet, dog - puppy, chicken - chick, cow - calf, duck - duckling, goat - kid, cat - kitten. Use for animal identification, class discussion, science, nutrition studies.

Title: BABY ANIMAL LOTTO
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Each of the lotto boards in this children's game is illustrated with photographs of young animals -- lambs, kittens and ducklings as well as all kinds of wild animals such as lion cubs and elephant calves. Players attempt to match lotto cards up with the same photograph on their board and in playing will learn to recognize 36 members of the animal kingdom.

Title: BEEFO-BINGO GAME
Author: South Dakota Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Upper Primary - Intermediate
Description: This game enables students to have fun while learning about the various important beef by-products. It comes with 30 card stock game boards displaying various beef by-products, "When A Cow Is More Than A Cow Brochure", and "Cowabunga Activity Booklet". Students play just like "Bingo".

Title: COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: 16"x20" jigsaw puzzle of the state. Points of historic, educational, or recreational interests are identified for each county. Also featured is the state seal, flag, flower, tree, bird, wild animal and fish.

Title: COTTON'S JOURNEY: FROM SEED TO YOU
Author: Alaca Company
Grade Level: All
Description: This kit's contents present the economic and historical importance of cotton and helps to develop a better understanding of how cotton is produced, processed, and used in our daily lives. It was designed to enrich language arts, science, and mathematics through innovative hands-on learning activities. The teacher's guide is in lesson plan format with concepts or objectives, background information, evaluation component, and vocabulary listings.

Title: CROP CARDS/SEED SAMPLES
Author: Nebraska Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Contains 8½"x11" cards for the following crops: corn, dry edible beans, oats, alfalfa, sugar beets, grain sorghum, wheat, soybeans. The card front depicts the plant, close up of the grain or seed. On the back the plant parts are named, where crop is grown, how grown, and what food or other products are obtained from the plant. Also includes seed samples for each crop.

Title: EAT WELL, GROW STRONG POSTER
Author: Nebraska Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Healthy eating habits are a focus on this poster and activity guide utilizing the Food Guide Pyramid. This publication contains background information and hands on student activities.

Title: EVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURE PICTORIAL TIMELINE - POSTER
Author: Dow Chemical Company & USDA
Grade Level: Middle
Description: Take a step back in time with this 4-color, 22¾"x32½" poster highlighting development and events in agricultural history. The poster includes dust storms, machinery, plant breeding, food processing, and famous agriculturalists. The timeline takes technology from farming by hand in 8,000 B.C. through mechanized farming, food preservation and distribution of today.

Title: FAMOUS FARM ANIMALS STAMP KIT
Author: Educational Insights
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This kit contains 6 stamps (pig, chicken, cow, horse, sheep, turkey). Students use the kit with the activity booklet to learn names of common animals, how they help people, animal sounds, animal young, creative writing, and math.

Title: FARM ANIMALS AND BABIES
Author: Flannelboard set
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Includes 21 realistic full-color animal pictures with corresponding word cards and comprehensive teaching guide. Features the following illustrations: hen, chicks, rooster, eggs, cow, bull, calf, steer, horse, colt, workhorse, goat, kid, sheep, lamb, pig, piglet, duck, duckling, goose, turkey. Borrow the portable flannel board to use with these illustrations.

Title: FARM ANIMALS CONCENTRATION GAME
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Game for 1 to 6 players. There are 24 pairs of matching cards in this set. Choose as few or as many as your students can manage at one time. Game helps students build memory skills while they learn about farm animals.

Title: FARM FLOOR PUZZLE
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This 2'x3' puzzle (24 pieces) depicts a farm house and barn, a variety of animals, and people doing different farm work. Use the puzzle for free play, discussion starters, math, or career lessons. Also, teaches matching, coordination, manual dexterity, and the patience to complete a task.

Title: FARM MURAL
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Huge 9'x4' laminated mural depicting a barn, farm animals, farm house, fields, children and pets. Use as a discussion starter for a wide variety of farm units.

Title: FIBER TO FABRIC
Author: New York Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate - Middle
Description: These two fact cards with wool samples depict the stages from raw wool to scoured wool to roving, then yarn and fabric.

Title: FLANNELBOARD (Portable)
Description: 24"x30" flannelboard made of 100% nylon, velcro style fabric featuring a hook and loop mounting system for attaching it to any smooth surface. Also included a 15 feet mounting rope.

Title: FOOD PRICE GAME
Author: Nebraska Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Board game for 3-5 players which uses historic retail food prices and farm value posters, 36 food price cards, 5 inflation cards and a game board to understand the price a farmer/producer received for a product (i.e. In 1990 the farmer received 16 cents for a pound of apples. The retail or grocery price was 72 cents). Students learn how inflation, weather affect food prices.

Title: HEALTHY EARTH/BULLETIN BOARD
Author: Trend Enterprises, Inc.
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Contains displays of positive actions to protect the environment including: precycling, recycling, conserving energy and water, reusing, picking up litter, planting and helping animals. Also contains pictures of the elements for a health earth: clean air and water, many trees, all kinds of creatures, good soil. Laminated and ready to be used for bulletin boards and discussion starters.

Title: HOW PLANTS GROW/BULLETIN BOARD
Author: Trend Enterprises, Inc.
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Bulletin board set is a complete plant science study aid of 12 fact-filled captioned cutouts including: seed and pollen distributors, flowering plant parts, leaf/fruit forms, trees by season, plant needs, evergreens, plants we eat. Contains resource guide. Laminated.

Title: ILLINOIS AGRICULTURE BULLETIN BOARD KIT
Author: DuPage County Farm Bureau/Illinois
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Kit with shapes of farm animals and structures designed to help teachers create a bulletin board on agriculture. Contains multiple shapes of farm animals, grains, machinery, and farm buildings to color, laminate, and display.

Title: INSECT STUDY CARDS
Author: Media Materials
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: These 30 insect cards are designed to increase students' knowledge of this complex and diverse group of animals. They show how some insects have adapted to their environment, and how they thrive and multiply.

Title: LARGE FARM ANIMALS
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This set contains accurately scaled, realistic reproductions of farm animals with authentic coloring. Contoured vinyl and proportioned bodies make this set particularly valuable in teaching the visually handicapped. The horse is 6½" high; other animals are in proportion. Set includes: cow, calf, bull, horse, colt, lamb and pig.

Title: LIVESTOCK EDUCATIONAL CARDS
Author: Nebraska Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate - Middle
Description: These 8 ½" x 11" color coordinated cards feature five kinds of livestock and a vocabulary card which completes the set of six. Beef cattle. dairy cattle, swine, sheep, and poultry are described on one side of the card and illustrated on the other.

Title: ON THE FARM STICKERS
Author: Kamstra, Angela
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Contains the following vinyl sticker animals: horse, duck, goslings, sheep, goat, cat, rooster, hen/chicks, pig, cow, calf, sunflower plant, milk bucket, nest. Stickers are velcro-hooked to use with flannel boards. Use for creative play, animal identification, language experience lessons.

Title: PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Author: American Animal Welfare Foundation
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: The purpose of this resource is to examine the relationship between humans and animals, and to explore the roles that animals play in our daily lives. This is a social stimulation game intended to acquaint students with diverse actions, motives, perceptions, and decision making skills which contribute to the development of public policy.

Title: PLANT KINGDOM/BULLETIN BOARD
Author: McDonald
Grade Level: Middle/Upper Grades
Description: Contains 4 22"x17" teaching posters of the following: mosses and liverworts; ferns, club mosses, horsetails; conifers - gymnosperms; flowering plants - angiosperms. Also contains 4 reproducible activity sheets and a teacher's guide. Use to introduce new information, stimulate discussion and reinforce and clarify classroom concepts. Laminated to use for bulletin boards also.

Title: PLANTS, TREES & FLOWERS/BULLETIN BOARDS
Author: Schaffer, Frank
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Bulletin board set illustrating a wide variety of plants and parts of a flowering plant (15 examples), different tree forms and parts of a tree with closeups of leaf and fruit forms (12 examples), parts of a flower and examples of different forms (14 examples). Laminated and ready to use for bulletin boards and science study.

Title: POLLINATION GAME
Author: Ampersand Press
Grade Level: Intermediate - Secondary
Description: This environmental discovery game contains 72 cards for games which demonstrate the interdependence of plants and animals. Insects, birds and flowers benefit each other in pollination. Get the right pollinators together with the right flowers and score points! Play 5 different games with this beautifully illustrated deck of cards.

Title: PUMPKINS, PUMPKINS, PUMPKINS
Author: New York Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: The 30" x 2" poster depicts the life cycle of the pumpkin and its uses. Within a circle imposed by a pumpkin cross section, a child plants a seed with a mouse looking on. As the mouse runs counter clockwise the pumpkin seed sprouts, grows, flowers, fruits, and a pumpkin develops and ripens.

Title: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE/BULLETIN BOARD
Author: Trend Enterprises, Inc.
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Contains the following displays: Why recycle? Reduce -- create less waste! Recycle -- rescue our resources! Reuse -- repair, not replace! Laminated and ready to use for bulletin boards and learning centers.

Title: SAFE FOOD JOURNEY
Author: National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Grade Level: Upper Primary
Description: This poster with lesson plans depicts handling food safely on its journey from farm to consumer. This is a supplement to any science, social studies, language arts, and health curricula.

Title: SAFETY FLOOR PUZZLE
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This 2'x3' (15 pieces) floor puzzle demonstrates a variety of safety practices in different settings: school, street, traffic, work. The accompanying teacher's guide provides learning objectives and suggested activities including free play, storytelling, circle activity, role-playing.

Title: THE SOURCE - PIZZA POSTER
Author: New York Agriculture's in the Classroom
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: This 25"x35" poster isolates the ingredients of an "exploded" pizza. Included are dough--yeast and wheat flour; sauce--onions, tomatoes, and spices; cheese, mushrooms, pepperoni. The intent is for students to identify the source of each ingredient.

Title: STUDY OF PLANT GROWTH
Author: Judy Instructo
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: A flannel board aid containing 23 flocked pieces showing different stages of plant growth and 132 word labels. Also includes a teaching guide. Plant growth illustrated include: bean plant growth from seed to plant; stages of growth of corn plant; illustrations of bulb, strawberry, cattail and geranium plants; cross sections of flower and soil. Use with portable flannel board from the lending library.

Title: SWINE POSTER
Author: Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: All
Description: This poster shows eight swine breeds with a brief description and information about some of the characteristics of the breed. This also contains background and reference information.

Title: THERE'S A COW IN MY MARSHMALLOW
Author: Florida Beef Council
Grade Level: All
Description: This placemat/activity sheet in a cartoon format provides insight into beef by-products. This publication has hands-on student activities.

Title: THINGS WE LEARN FROM A COW AND A WORM
Author: National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: The role of ruminants and earthworms play in the environment are examined with this poster and activities. This publication is in lesson plan format with objective, background information, hands-on activities, cross subject matter referencing, and vocabulary listings.

Title: THIS IT IS MY BODY
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This 49 piece puzzle lifts out of the frame to display simple drawings of the skeletal, digestive, circulatory, and respiratory systems. Use this simple puzzle to reinforce learning about the body's essential systems.

Title: TRIP TO THE FARM - TEACHING PICTURES
Author: Frost Marie
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Contains 12 realistic, detailed 14"x11" pictures of the following farm scenes: plowing, going to market, farm buildings, field crops (wheat), tree crops (oranges, horses, cows, chickens, pigs, sheep, other farm animals, feeding calves. Resource sheets accompany each picture providing learning objectives, activities, background, stories and rhythmic activities.

Title: 20 QUESTIONS -- PLANTS WE EAT
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: An educational card game designed to increase general knowledge of common plants we eat (nutrition, appearance, history, science, and cultural acceptance). Includes 50 different descriptions of fruits, vegetables and grains.

Title: UP-CLOSE - GUESS IT!
52 Picture Cards of Natural Objects
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Up close - Guess It! (Nature-made objects) is a unique, participatory game for young children that develops awareness, understanding and appreciation of the natural environment in the world around them. The over-sized card deck has 26 pairs of large color photographs showing real, natural objects. Each pair shows an up-close view of a part of the subject, and a distant view showing most or all of the subject. (ex. feather, bark, melon seed, tulip petal) Also includes suggested activities to reinforce language, science, math, and other learning skills.

Title: VEGETABLES & FRUITS (Poster Cards)
Grade Level: Primary
Description: There are 30 14"x11" posters in the series. Each card illustrates a fruit or vegetable, the way in which it is grown, and the sight word. The following fruits and vegetables are included: apple, banana, beet, blueberry, carrot, cherry, corn, cucumber, eggplant, fig, grape, lemon, lettuce, lime, orange, peach, peanut, pear, peas, pepper, plum, potato, prune, pumpkin, radish, squash, strawberry, tomato, turnip, yellow bean. Also includes learning objectives, classroom activities, and suggestions for integration into various subject areas.

Title: WHAT AM I? FARM CHARACTERS
Author: Stick Out Your Neck Series
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Contains 12 large farm animal characters with face cutouts. Use for dramatic play. Also contains a play for students to use with the characters. Resource guide includes directions for use, 2 word lists for creative writing and a word search worksheet.

Title: WHERE CAN YOU FIND CORN AFTER IT LEAVES THE FARMER'S FIELD?
Author: Indiana Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: This full color 14" x 18 ½" poster featuring ten windows that open, teaches children about corn by-products, which everyone uses. The products are normally taken for granted, and children would not associate these products with corn. Each window opens to reveal an unusual corn product.

Title: WHERE CAN YOU FIND SOYBEANS AFTER THEY LEAVE THE FARMER'S FIELD?
Author: Indiana Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: This full color 14" x 18 ½" poster featuring ten windows that open, teaches children about soybean by-products, which everyone uses. The products are normally taken for granted, and children would not associate these products with soybeans. Each window opens to reveal an unusual soybean product.

Title: WHO GETS YOUR FOOD DOLLAR?
Author: Illinois Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level: Middle - Secondary
Description: This poster focuses on the breakdown of the food dollar among farm value, labor, packaging, etc. Compares the farm value and retail price for selected food; and compares retail prices of today with past decades for selected foods.

Title: WOODEN FARM PUZZLE
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This 31 piece board puzzle features farm people, animals, buildings, structures, equipment, and trees. On one side students match cutouts to the various shapes. The reverse side has a painted landscape on which children can create a variety of scenes using the farm cutouts.

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